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video as well. The former group, rec.radio.amateur.packet, was removed on
September 21st, 1993. It is obsolete, and you should use .digital.misc
instead (or the appropriate new mailing list, mentioned below). The group
has .misc as part of the name to allow further specialization if the users
wish it, such as .digital.tcp-ip.
The swap group is rec.radio.swap. This recognizes a fact that became
evident shortly after the original group was formed: Hams don't just swap ham
radio gear, and other folks besides hams swap ham equipment. If you have radio
equipment, or test gear, or computer stuff that hams would be interested in,
here's the place. Equipment wanted postings belong here too. Discussions about
the equipment generally don't; if you wish to discuss a particular posting
with the buyer, email is a much better way to do it, and the other groups,
especially .equipment and .homebrew, are the place for public discussions.
There is now a regular posting with information on how to go about buying and
selling items in rec.radio.swap; please refer to it before you post there.
To answer a frequently asked question: No, there is no mailing list that
goes along with this group. If you can't read Usenet news directly, you're
out of luck.
The group rec.radio.amateur.policy was created as a place for all the
discussions that seem to drag on interminably about the many rules,
regulations, legalities, and policies that surround amateur radio, both
existing and proposed. Recent changes to the Amateur Radio Rules (FCC Part
97) have finally laid to rest the Great Usenet Pizza Autopatch Debate - it's
now legal to order a pizza on the autopatch, if you're not in the pizza
business - as well as complaints about now-preempted local scanner laws
hostile to amateurs, but plenty of discussion about what a bunch of rotten
no-goodniks the local frequency coordinating body is, as well as the
neverending no-code debate, may still be found here.
The group rec.radio.cb is the place for all discussion about the Citizens'
Band radio service. Such discussions have been very inflammatory in
rec.ham-radio in the past; please do not cross-post to both rec.radio.cb and
rec.radio.amateur.* unless the topic is genuinely of interest to both hams
and CBers - and very few topics are.
The rec.radio.info group is just what its name implies: it's the place where
informational messages from across rec.radio.* may be found, regardless of
where else they're posted. As of this writing, information posted to the
group includes Cary Oler's daily solar progagation bulletins, ARRL
bulletins, the Frequently Asked Questions files for the various groups, and
radio modification instructions. This group is moderated, so you cannot post
to it directly; if you try, even if your message is crossposted to one of
the other groups, your message will be mailed to the moderator, who is
currently David Dodell, WB7TPY. The email address for submissions to the
group is rec.radio.info-moderator@primenet.com. Inquires and other adminis-
trivia should be directed to rec.radio.info-request@primenet.com. For more
information about rec.radio.info, consult the introduction and posting
guidelines that are regularly posted to that newsgroup.
The groups r.r.amateur.antenna, .boatanchors, .dx, .equipment, .homebrew,
and .space are for more specialized areas of ham radio: discussions about
antennas, the older tube based amateur, military, and commercial gear,
commercially-made equipment, homebrewing, and amateur radio space operations.
The .equipment group is not the place for buying or selling equipment; that's
what rec.radio.swap is for. Similarly, the .space group is specifically
about amateur radio in space, such as the OSCAR program and SAREX, the Shuttle
Amateur Radio EXperiment; other groups cover other aspects of satellites and
space. Homebrewing isn't about making your own alcoholic beverages at home
(that's rec.crafts.brewing), but rather construction of radio and electronic
equipment by the amateur experimenter. The .dx group is devoted to long
distance amateur communications. Each of these subgroups has its own
charter and FAQ; please refer to the archives to find these documents.
Except for rec.radio.swap and rec.radio.cb, all of these newsgroups are
available by Internet electronic mail in digest format; send a mail message
containing "help" on a line by itself to listserv@ucsd.edu for instructions
on how to use the mail server.
All of the groups can be posted to by electronic mail, though, by using a
gateway at the University of Texas at Austin. To post a message this way,
change the name of the group you wish to post to by replacing all of the '.'s
with '-'s - for example, rec.radio.swap becomes rec-radio-swap - and send to
that name@cs.utexas.edu (rec-radio-swap@cs.utexas.edu, for example). You may
crosspost by including multiple addresses as Cc: entries (but see below). This
gateway's continued availability is at the pleasure of the admins at
UT-Austin, and is subject to going away at any time - and especially if
forgeries and other net.abuses become a problem. You have been warned.
Mailing Lists
=============
In addition to the mailing lists that mirror the Usenet newsgroups, there
also are a few that stand alone. These cover specific areas of ham radio,
and discussion is focused on just those areas. PLEASE BE SURE TO SAVE THE
WELCOME MESSAGE YOU RECEIVE AFTER SUBSCRIBING -- IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT
INFO REGARDING UNSUBSCRIBING!
The cq-contest mailing list is for discussions of contesting in ham radio.
To join, send an email to cq-contesting-request@contesting.com.
The DX mailing list covers the finer points of DXing. This one is also
joined by mailing "subscribe" on a line by itself, this time to
dx-request@unbc.edu.
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